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fiscal cliff fiscal cliff fiscal cliff if you completely fell off the mainstream news clip this week here's what you might have missed can you hear me now no more reindeer games in washington president obama and house speaker john boehner finally on speaking terms but the question is are they speaking each other's language when it comes to the fiscal cliff falling off the fiscal cliff into freefall is there a soft landing or not but to be the end of the world if washington failed to reach a deal to stop the more than half a billion dollars in spending cuts and tax increases from going into effect my next guest says the fiscal cliff is simply y2k fair all over again which amounted to nothing as i recall i agree we're not going to go over the cliff will hug him you know we will all be out of the work. so basically lots of speculation and very little substance but i can't say i'm not surprised particular day when i look at the recent rhetoric from this do nothing congress take us for example armed services committee just described the looming defense cuts as quote an unacceptable risk t
fiscal cliff fiscal cliff fiscal cliff if you completely fell off the mainstream news clip this week here's what you might have missed can you hear me now no more reindeer games in washington president obama and house speaker john boehner finally on speaking terms but the question is are they speaking each other's language when it comes to the fiscal cliff falling off the fiscal cliff into freefall is there a soft landing or not but to be the end of the world if washington failed to reach a...
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is economic problems does this tax debate or even as fiscal cliff debate begin to scratch the surface of the crisis all former republican strategist author and historian kevin phillips is here with lessons we can learn from seventeen seventy five the subject of his latest book that many a politician may benefit from actually reading. from a long time when paul church and i don't do it anymore books boys much so you do not read his words. there you go and the as these the is reportedly investigating going to be providing twelve million dollars in derivatives trading losses in two thousand and eight yeah yeah there's a list of alleged bad bank behavior how is good capitalism though being driven out by bad capitalism oh we'll break it down and word of the day plus alan greenspan says a painless solution to the u.s. debt is a fantasy finally something we can agree on more loose change let's get to today's capital account. our guest kevin phillips made a name for himself in the late one nine hundred sixty s. as a g.o.p. operative who coined the phrase and wrote the book the emerging republ
is economic problems does this tax debate or even as fiscal cliff debate begin to scratch the surface of the crisis all former republican strategist author and historian kevin phillips is here with lessons we can learn from seventeen seventy five the subject of his latest book that many a politician may benefit from actually reading. from a long time when paul church and i don't do it anymore books boys much so you do not read his words. there you go and the as these the is reportedly...
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a lot right i know i think that this i think i'm i think it's unfortunate that the fiscal cliff has become such a din of coverage because i think major points are lost and it's interesting one that i want to highlight that is worth noting so steve kean our guest are frequent guest was actually on the hill yesterday for a congressional briefing with members of congress who brought him in to do that and he was talking about how based on historical precedent what you could see with the fiscal cliff in terms of cuts dimitry to the public sector are not so much the impact of those public sector cuts but the impact on the private sector that may begin to leveraging once the government starts cutting what a shock yeah this is shocking news if you guys don't know this one of allan you're not watching the show i mean. yes this is true this is actually one hundred percent accurate ok there is it back private liability yes yes but what i think is interesting is because it's a republican talking point that businesses are holding off on spending because of uncertainty because of what's going to happen
a lot right i know i think that this i think i'm i think it's unfortunate that the fiscal cliff has become such a din of coverage because i think major points are lost and it's interesting one that i want to highlight that is worth noting so steve kean our guest are frequent guest was actually on the hill yesterday for a congressional briefing with members of congress who brought him in to do that and he was talking about how based on historical precedent what you could see with the fiscal...
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cliff it is what the modern debate over the fiscal the country's fiscal problems and partially economic problems are centered around currently and that has really been centered around the issue of taxes for the top bracket some other things in there too but really this issue of let's play a clip of some of the key talking points. we're going to have to see the rates on the top two percent go up and we're not going to be able to get a deal with out of our members believe strongly that raising tax rates will hurt you come to new polls. especially if. you're a well three is a better way to raise this revenue then raising rates. ok so they don't agree on taxes for the top two percent of the country but bigger picture is this a thin representative of any kind of transform ational issue that will save the u.s. economy or the ten flavors of. debts that have accumulated to such a great extent well. the little snippets of debate between the pros of the republicans in congress i think the whole thing has a major element of farce. the democrats really don't want to cut spending very much they know
cliff it is what the modern debate over the fiscal the country's fiscal problems and partially economic problems are centered around currently and that has really been centered around the issue of taxes for the top bracket some other things in there too but really this issue of let's play a clip of some of the key talking points. we're going to have to see the rates on the top two percent go up and we're not going to be able to get a deal with out of our members believe strongly that raising...
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talk about that do you know the fiscal cliff. do you think a lot of americans do so then why is the media talking about it incessantly well so good there i i guess i'm not as informed as i should be but i just kind of figure it might work out do you think most people feel that way you know you think most people are worried i think they are and i think that if i ignored it all go away do you think calling it something like the fiscal cliff minimizes it yes and no i definitely agree that it's a complex problem i don't think it simplifies it though i think it adds an element of panic or fear looming. doom that and the media loves that yeah do you think there's actually something to worry about or do you think it's something the politicians and the media used to distract us from what's really going on politics and media for sure so what's really going on that they're distracting us from. their own personal agendas people fall into a trip when it comes to reelecting. people that don't do their job. which is all of them you know in a w
talk about that do you know the fiscal cliff. do you think a lot of americans do so then why is the media talking about it incessantly well so good there i i guess i'm not as informed as i should be but i just kind of figure it might work out do you think most people feel that way you know you think most people are worried i think they are and i think that if i ignored it all go away do you think calling it something like the fiscal cliff minimizes it yes and no i definitely agree that it's a...
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cliff the fiscal cliff the fiscal cliff it's just a little i'm hearing it out on the street is that we're going to talk to colonel doug of the grader who's been just published this new op ed in time magazine about you know what what what is cutting through all the rhetoric how can we cut defense while still maintaining our national security so we'll talk about that we're also to talk about opinion yet though the protests in mexico there's already been one failed tell the massive rests detention and all the aggression coming from the mexican riot police and also why what is it all about and how this total of these of the national media play into those role there aside from the talk about drones drones drones are to his favorite subject in all the new killer toys for obama's wish list coming up this christmas and all the new updates on the man a man right out of you thanks for that update that's coming up all in a half hour but that is going to do it for the news but check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash our team america our website our teeth dot com slash us a follow
cliff the fiscal cliff the fiscal cliff it's just a little i'm hearing it out on the street is that we're going to talk to colonel doug of the grader who's been just published this new op ed in time magazine about you know what what what is cutting through all the rhetoric how can we cut defense while still maintaining our national security so we'll talk about that we're also to talk about opinion yet though the protests in mexico there's already been one failed tell the massive rests detention...
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cliff we hear so much about we hear the comings and goings of obama and boehner on tax policy as though this was the issue that was going to solve the u.s. economy's problems or the u.s. government's budget deficit problems and does it i mean is really such a small part of the iceberg. of economic crisis that this country has been dealing with for the past four years and lo and behold when you talk to people that have been in the game for a while like the former republican strategist has been that we spoke to they say no it's very minimally addressing the problems of the u.s. and to put that in even broader scope our guest kevin phillips his recent book is about seven hundred seventy five so he just finished a book on the american revolution many more economic factors playing a role there than what we maybe are taught in grade school here in the u.s. so we looked at what the lessons are today looking at the. current economic problems and monetary problems and got his perspective a perspective he says that politicians are not likely to have he says they don't read history books but you k
cliff we hear so much about we hear the comings and goings of obama and boehner on tax policy as though this was the issue that was going to solve the u.s. economy's problems or the u.s. government's budget deficit problems and does it i mean is really such a small part of the iceberg. of economic crisis that this country has been dealing with for the past four years and lo and behold when you talk to people that have been in the game for a while like the former republican strategist has been...
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cliff or even the eurozone drama what else are they missing around the world say in i don't know let's pick a country japan we're going to have the c.e.o. former c.e.o. of a company you may know it's a japanese company called a live this maybe you had an olympus camera at some point in your life well he went from c.e.o. to whistleblower uncovering a one point seven billion dollar fraud he's going to talk about this and what it is symbolic of in terms of maybe japanese corporate health interesting i your producer dimitri and i were talking about it earlier sounds like he's got a very interesting story lauren lyster thanks as always thank you and that's going to do it for us for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or our website r t dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter at christine for example. culture is that so much a given to you each visit a share of power and finally the marquesa herdsman would seem like a fantasy only two years ago could become a reality very soon put a strong sense of identity and spread across the middl
cliff or even the eurozone drama what else are they missing around the world say in i don't know let's pick a country japan we're going to have the c.e.o. former c.e.o. of a company you may know it's a japanese company called a live this maybe you had an olympus camera at some point in your life well he went from c.e.o. to whistleblower uncovering a one point seven billion dollar fraud he's going to talk about this and what it is symbolic of in terms of maybe japanese corporate health...
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cliff of their own because new rules are coming in january which means that they need to save up more money just for a day but they're like half a trillion euros short i'll tell you more about that all right thanks a lot to retreat. wealthy british sign on. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. fever. time style.
cliff of their own because new rules are coming in january which means that they need to save up more money just for a day but they're like half a trillion euros short i'll tell you more about that all right thanks a lot to retreat. wealthy british sign on. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. fever. time style.
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as congress and the president viktor over the upcoming fiscal cliff many inside the beltway say a path to the stable u.s. economic future can be found in the simpson bowles plan coming up five things you should know that's included in this plan. it's friday december seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. well we've been today in syria where fears of chemical weapons have resulted in one american official after another declaring a red line against the country president obama hillary clinton leon panetta and a host of other american officials have threatened action if chemical weapons are used in the country but behind the curtain of rhetoric are real doubts of what weapon syria actually has and whether the u.s. is really willing to get involved in yet another conflict in the middle east r t international correspondent diane chicana and asks if the allegations are enough for military action. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama adm
as congress and the president viktor over the upcoming fiscal cliff many inside the beltway say a path to the stable u.s. economic future can be found in the simpson bowles plan coming up five things you should know that's included in this plan. it's friday december seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. well we've been today in syria where fears of chemical weapons have resulted in one american official after another declaring a red line against the...
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plummeting off a fiscal cliff violent protest in mexico's self-immolation and tibet i mean it seems like the world's falling apart everywhere you look but instead of getting the latest news on all of these important issues from the corporate media all i've been seeing this week is this. royal baby royal baby from a little baby well baby it's the news royal thing and seven waiting for ever since prince william and his wife kate said i do the royal couple is expecting a baby princess kate middleton is pregnant after months of tabloid speculation and rumor the royal family has confirmed today that the duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting some breaking news buckingham palace has just announced that the duke and duchess of cambridge william and kate are expecting a baby that i hate this baby already earthly a fetus developing what is that breaking news come on there's a lot of things that i could say about this most of which stems from i up utter disdain of a celebration of carrying on a royal blood line that does nothing more than symbolize feudalism in the twenty first century but se
plummeting off a fiscal cliff violent protest in mexico's self-immolation and tibet i mean it seems like the world's falling apart everywhere you look but instead of getting the latest news on all of these important issues from the corporate media all i've been seeing this week is this. royal baby royal baby from a little baby well baby it's the news royal thing and seven waiting for ever since prince william and his wife kate said i do the royal couple is expecting a baby princess kate...
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these are your headlines for friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve the fiscal cliff continues to drive the news cycle and washington politics meanwhile the wall street journal reports it's pushing us i.p.o.'s stock sales and mergers as sellers feared taxes on investment gains could go up next year now despite news like this and even if by efforts to promote i.p.o. bubbles the number of companies going public continues to be down significantly from highs in the nineteen nineties who why would we want this. why would we ever want to bubble party private equity advisor william janeway is here to explain why bubbles are sometimes good plus u.s. corporate profits hit a record high in the third quarter according to the bureau of economic analysis with these profits why are we seeing more business investment to fuel innovation will discuss and we hear about sovereign credit downgrade and warnings of those downgrades all the time in the wake of the debt crisis and austerity in europe but now extravagance and luxury are on the line the ratings agency moody's has reportedly put carmaker
these are your headlines for friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve the fiscal cliff continues to drive the news cycle and washington politics meanwhile the wall street journal reports it's pushing us i.p.o.'s stock sales and mergers as sellers feared taxes on investment gains could go up next year now despite news like this and even if by efforts to promote i.p.o. bubbles the number of companies going public continues to be down significantly from highs in the nineteen nineties who why...
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for the so-called fiscal cliff looming every proposal put forward by the two parties is scored by the c b o the congressional budget office and by economists to determine what effect it will have on our gross domestic product but its g.d.p. really the best way to measure growth and progress miss jones joins me now he's the economy resource director of food and water watch which welcome thanks tom great to have you with us. adbusters ran an incredible ad a couple of years ago in which they they graphically show this but they said that every time a forest is cut down g.d.p. goes up every time somebody is diagnosed with cancer g.d.p. goes up right every time there's an oil spill g.d.p. goes up if and then they end up by saying if we're going to survive we. economists have to learn how to subtract g.d.p. is a fairly crummy measure of the health of a society is robert kennedy pointed out back in the sixty's yeah that's definitely true you know g.d.p. was never intended to be a measurement of social well being or the overall health of the society it was meant as a very limited measurement o
for the so-called fiscal cliff looming every proposal put forward by the two parties is scored by the c b o the congressional budget office and by economists to determine what effect it will have on our gross domestic product but its g.d.p. really the best way to measure growth and progress miss jones joins me now he's the economy resource director of food and water watch which welcome thanks tom great to have you with us. adbusters ran an incredible ad a couple of years ago in which they they...
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cliff they have us thinking about words like social security and medicare and while that's going on the phone from wall street have come away with this without anybody being punished at all and so the punishment should be to them you did this to us wall street now what you have to do is you have to get us through this problem in order to do that you know what you're going to have to pay your way into here tim geithner of all people they're supposed to be advising this president of how to get us out of this mess to hear tim geithner says no i don't want you to tax my friends on wall street is absurd it's shameful but but somebody has to have courage to come forward with that organ wall and not only that a step tax would also throw a little sand in the gears for this automated trading that has put the whole system at risk is so unstable. that it's a very very important thing thanks for bringing that might happen tonio brilliant as always thank you for being with us tonight thank you joe. just. the. is the good the bad and the very is supercop cain is slightly ugly the good michael for
cliff they have us thinking about words like social security and medicare and while that's going on the phone from wall street have come away with this without anybody being punished at all and so the punishment should be to them you did this to us wall street now what you have to do is you have to get us through this problem in order to do that you know what you're going to have to pay your way into here tim geithner of all people they're supposed to be advising this president of how to get us...
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well when we talk about going over the fiscal cliff one of the things lawmakers on both sides of the aisle fear most are these massive cuts to the defense budget that would go into effect waiters in washington warn almost on a daily basis that these proposed reductions in defense will hurt national security and lead to another recession but there are some parts of this story that aren't being told are teaser mungle indo takes a look. with that fighter jets patrolling the skies. and well armed battleships sailing the seas the united states has amassed the strongest military force in the world but some in washington believe proposed cuts to the defense department would be devastating defense cuts that i believe would do real damage to our security our troops and their families and our military's ability to protect the nation in this age of austerity u.s. defense secretary leon panetta painted a doomsday scenario it proposed cuts in the military budget go into effect however even if these cuts go through many analysts believe american military spending will remain bloated i think a lot
well when we talk about going over the fiscal cliff one of the things lawmakers on both sides of the aisle fear most are these massive cuts to the defense budget that would go into effect waiters in washington warn almost on a daily basis that these proposed reductions in defense will hurt national security and lead to another recession but there are some parts of this story that aren't being told are teaser mungle indo takes a look. with that fighter jets patrolling the skies. and well armed...
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cliff as being able to win a small battle and maybe later to be able after the midterms to win the war i think people really feel they sent people to washington to spend less money they're not going to do it if they raise the debt ceiling if that sounds like spending money and the g.o.p. is really to try to both parties have in the past but the g.o.p. this time they mischaracterize well. that means and i think a lot of people don't understand it their whole strategy depends on low information voters when it comes to the limits and people not understanding what it means and really where mcconnell's really are doing is raising the debt ceiling he's not preventing president over spending money he's basically saying america should become a deadbeat nation and not pay our bills and i think the white house made a big mistake yesterday when carney said we've taken the fourteenth amendment option off the table because if the republicans want to play games with the debt ceiling and question the credit of the united states which it was in direct contradiction of the fourteenth amendment the pres
cliff as being able to win a small battle and maybe later to be able after the midterms to win the war i think people really feel they sent people to washington to spend less money they're not going to do it if they raise the debt ceiling if that sounds like spending money and the g.o.p. is really to try to both parties have in the past but the g.o.p. this time they mischaracterize well. that means and i think a lot of people don't understand it their whole strategy depends on low information...
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cliff and it was a rather quiet day of trading in the year of power the results more. than in the united states we're seeing right now now financials and resources firms are down but industrials are high in london was brought through. well one point seven percent and here in the moscow equities closed higher more than one percent gains for both the r.t.s. and the my six indices as burbank the outstanding gain adds up more than five percent on news that signed a deal with turkey ex and bank for a billion dollars to finance trade between the two countries over the next previous . now the u.k. capital tracked a lot of investment but not just in property but also those interested in russian shares trading volumes for the first six most liquid russian stocks has a fall on the moscow bourse to forty percent as opposed to sixty percent on the london stock exchange and experts say such dynamics is seen with the most blue chips except for the t b where is the other way around now november trading changes have become the biggest in the last eight years and experts say it's not t
cliff and it was a rather quiet day of trading in the year of power the results more. than in the united states we're seeing right now now financials and resources firms are down but industrials are high in london was brought through. well one point seven percent and here in the moscow equities closed higher more than one percent gains for both the r.t.s. and the my six indices as burbank the outstanding gain adds up more than five percent on news that signed a deal with turkey ex and bank for...
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cliff rather quiet day of trading in europe in london financials and resources for were down by industrials one higher with rolls royce gaining one point seven percent at the close here in moscow had a pretty positive start to the week with the r.t.s. my six gaining more than one percent to burbank is the outstanding gain of more than five percent on news it's a signed a deal with turkey ex-im bank for one billion dollars over three years the finance trade this week. trading volumes for the six most liquid russian stock has fallen on the moscow bourse to forty percent as opposed to sixty percent on the london stock exchange experts say such a dynamic is seen with most of blue chips except for v.t. be in russia where it's the other way round november trading changes have become the biggest in the last eight years experts say it's not that bad as the data involves only companies with parallel listing we apologize for that map which had nothing to do with this story but after a short break r.t. talks to elise salter british filmmaker and director of a film about the city of london and the corp
cliff rather quiet day of trading in europe in london financials and resources for were down by industrials one higher with rolls royce gaining one point seven percent at the close here in moscow had a pretty positive start to the week with the r.t.s. my six gaining more than one percent to burbank is the outstanding gain of more than five percent on news it's a signed a deal with turkey ex-im bank for one billion dollars over three years the finance trade this week. trading volumes for the six...
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cliff now the common currency is climbing steadily really ever since the great buyback deal which calls the initial optimism and it has continued from there where the russian ruble finished the session stronger against the dollar but low against the strengthening ruble in moscow the markets finished up the session in negative territory as you can see just there under a percent but the r.t.s. and the mice and the fact that oil prices are going style there isn't really helping matters the you guys investors have always keep a close eye on lies. and moving on china has a posse u.s. as the leading trading partner in the world and done it in just five years the two biggest economies in the world have now switch places in terms of trade back in two thousand and six the u.s. was the largest for one hundred twenty seven countries versus seventy for china the latest figures show china is now the largest one hundred twenty four countries with just seventy six for the u.s. but the longevity of china's pace of growth has now been called into question and i asked yana from standard chartered what th
cliff now the common currency is climbing steadily really ever since the great buyback deal which calls the initial optimism and it has continued from there where the russian ruble finished the session stronger against the dollar but low against the strengthening ruble in moscow the markets finished up the session in negative territory as you can see just there under a percent but the r.t.s. and the mice and the fact that oil prices are going style there isn't really helping matters the you...
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cliff the common currency is still climbing steadily really ever since that greek buyback deal which calls the initial optimism and it just continued on from there whereas the russian ruble that this is not finished up today was stronger against the dollar and you can see against the euro back. here in moscow than the markets they finished up in negative territory today as you can see under a percent of the arts yes and the my sex the fact that oil prices are going south isn't really help me out not as investors always keep a close eye on those here in moscow. moving on then dreams of becoming the next james bond winning formula one or even designing your own fashion line may be on a typical aspiration list in most countries but here in russia jobs that people dream about on. far more modest according to the latest survey almost half of the russian population aspire to work for the biggest state run company gas brum so let's get over to the business but it's a now as you go to meet him and just there's so gas from where in the wrong place is the place to be a hair what is the most th
cliff the common currency is still climbing steadily really ever since that greek buyback deal which calls the initial optimism and it just continued on from there whereas the russian ruble that this is not finished up today was stronger against the dollar and you can see against the euro back. here in moscow than the markets they finished up in negative territory today as you can see under a percent of the arts yes and the my sex the fact that oil prices are going south isn't really help me...
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cliff actually ahead of them because since the beginning of next year there will be new stricter rules to basil three rules and the face of a lot of shortage of money tell you all about that in a couple of minutes after all right thanks a lot of. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you is there a fifty nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones in their shattered lives with the goal when professor of design his first brain using b
cliff actually ahead of them because since the beginning of next year there will be new stricter rules to basil three rules and the face of a lot of shortage of money tell you all about that in a couple of minutes after all right thanks a lot of. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent...